Yungest Digital Multi-Millionaires

“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door”, so said Ralph Waldo Emerson once upon a time. And it’s true. Innovation is a surefire way to succeed. Young people have always been able to see things in new and unconventional ways, and nowadays they’re in the best possible position to make their childlike dreams a reality.
We live in a world where young people have a noted advantaged over the older generation in terms of internet savvy, coding literacy and social media. As such, we’re seeing more and more young people making their fresh visions into lucrative businesses.
The trend arguably took off in the mid-1970s when both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had built tech empires by their early 20s.
A generation later came the Google guys, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who forever changed the way we would access information when they were still students at Stanford. They were in their mid-20s.  Then came Mark Zuckerberg, who introduced Facebook while still a student at Harvard University and became a billionaire by the age of 23.
Zuckerberg is probably the biggest digital entrepreneur celebrity of his generation. But many of his contemporaries, equally fresh-faced, have created some of the most important online interfaces in the world. The following are seven such whiz-kids, who made their fortunes before they even hit 30.

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7. Matt Mullenweg, $40 million

Born in the same year as Zuckerberg, in 1984, Texas native Matt Mullenweg is best known for developing the dominant web software WordPress. WordPress was originally created because Matt himself needed a better publishing tool for the web.
As the CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com founded in 2005, Matt writes on his blog, “WordPress is a part of who I am. Like eating, breathing, music, I can’t not work on WordPress.”
Matt also supports new business via Audrey Capital, an angel investment and research company created to help innovative ideas grow. In 2013, WordPress was used by more than 23.2% of the top 10 million websites as of August 2013.
WordPress is the most popular blogging system in the world today with more than 60 million websites.

6. John Vechey, $60 million

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When John Vechey made his way into computer games, neither Facebook nor the iPhone even existed.
Vechey dropped out of college in 1997 to work on a computer game with two friends. In 2000, this trio launched PopCap, a pioneer in the world’s gaming industry, boasting wildly popular titles including Bejeweled and Plants vs. Zombies.
Since PopCap’s beginnings in 2000, John Vechey has served in several roles, including interim CEO and VP of Corporate Strategy and Development, and has led the company’s forays into social and mobile product lines.
Vechey believes that PopCap’s secret to success is to “Build games so accessible that anyone can play.” They worked to make PopCap’s games incredibly fun and easy so that they appealed to everyone.
In 2011, Electronic Arts bought PopCap in the largest acquisition it has ever made. Electronic Arts, bought the company for $750 million in cash and stock. If PopCap hits certain earnings targets, its owners could reap in an additional $550 million. “Still, it’s not just about the money,” says Vechey. “It’s about the legacy of what you created,” he says.
John Vechey left the company in September 2014 after 15 years. Vechey said he plans to work more at Grist.org, a nonprofit environmental news site.

5. Angelo Sotira, $75 million

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In 1996, at just 15 years of age, Angelo Sotira started a music file-sharing site called Dimension Music. He sold it to Michael Ovitz in 1999. Angelo worked the next two years at Ovitz’s Artist Management Group & Lynx Technology Group (Ovtiz’s Internet investment arm).
Born in 1981, Angelo considers himself to possess an “intense work style.”
DeviantArt began in 2000, co-founded by Angelo Sotira, Matthew Stephens and Scott Jarkoff. Today, it has grown into a hotbed of creativity and collaboration for all types of artists.
DeviantArt was started to service a community of graphic designers who didn’t have a place to congregate, share their work, and publish what they were doing. At that time, application skinning (changing the look of your apps) was becoming increasingly popular and many artists used DeviantArt as a place to showcase their “skins.”
DeviantArt enabled artists to publish original art to the web, collaborate with each other, comment on each other’s artwork and build a fan base to further promote the art.
It quickly expanded past “skins” into more than 2,500 categories of visual art with over 281 million individual works, all while allowing artists around the globe to connect and exchange feedback.

4. Blake Ross, $150 million

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Almost 10 years ago, Blake Ross – in collaboration with Dave Hyatt – became one of the founding fathers of Mozilla Firefox, the popular global web browser.
Blake, born in 1985, is somewhat of a prodigy. He created his first website at the age of ten. He began programming while still in middle school and began contributing to Netscape very soon after it was open-sourced.
He worked as an intern at Netscape at the young age of 15, while attending high school. While interning at Netscape, Blake Ross became disillusioned with the browser he was working with at the time. He envisioned a smaller, easy-to-use browser that could have mass appeal.
Mozilla Firefox was released in 2004 and quickly became one of the biggest  browsers in the world.

 3. Andrew Michael, $195 million

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At the young age of 17, internet “whiz kid” Andrew Michael walked out of St Edward’s School in England to concentrate on the Fasthosts business by which he would make his fortune.
Andrew realized how hard it was to find a host for a small business, so he had decided to start one himself. In 2013, Fasthosts was estimated to have 800,000 clients
Fasthosts was initially set up in 1998 and provided email and other web services to small business. It quickly became a giant in the industry. By 2002, Fasthosts was listed as the second fastest growing technology company in England. In 2013, Fasthosts was estimated to have 800,000 clients.
Andrew’s first luxury purchase, fulfilling his childhood dream of owning one, was a helicopter. Although he did buy one, he later sold it and says it is more convenient to charter one as and when he needs it.

2. Chad Hurley, $335 million

Born in 1977, Chad Hurley is the co-founder and former CEO of YouTube. Hurley collaborated with Steve Chen to create the brand in 2005. In 2006, he and Chen sold YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion in stock.
And in the summer of 2014, after 15 years of working together, first at PayPal and then at YouTube, these entrepreneurial co-founders parted ways. Steve Chen moved over to Google Ventures and Hurley is now focusing on MixBit.
MixBit is a new app that helps people create videos together. The app recently launched into a beta testing period to get people on the platform and obtain feedback. The concept of MixBit, an app that lets users record clips and then create videos collaboratively, may be ahead of its time, according to technology experts. But Chad faces the future with the same optimism and entrepreneur leadership he did with YouTube. Stay tuned.

1. Andrew Gower, $680 million

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One of the most successful young entrepreneurs to cash in on the online gaming trend was Andrew Gower.
Gower is a British video game developer and co-founder of Jagex Games Studio, once listed as England’s largest independent developer and publisher of online games. It is best known for RuneScape, the world’s largest free-to-play MMORPG.
Since leaving Jagex in 2010, Gower has founded a new gaming development and consulting company, Fen Research. Currently, he’s developing a futuristic sci-fi strategy game named Solstrike to create groundbreaking new technology and products in the field of online games and user created content.
Not yet 40 years old, Andrew Gower’s net worth is currently estimated at $680 million

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''I had sex with 1,000 women but was never truly happy'' says Britain's Got Talent star

Anthony Ghosh - aka DJ Talent - has finally settled down with the lady of his dreams after she popped up on Facebook chat

Gold-toothed rapper Anthony Ghosh is a 24-carat charmer when it comes to dating women. In fact, he boasts he's ­bedded more than 1,000.

But the 36-year-old star, who found fame on Britain's Got Talent, has put his wild ways behind him and is now a
one-woman man – after falling for a fan he met on Facebook.

And Karen Usherwood, 43, can't ­believe her luck at being the woman to finally tame Anthony, who goes under the stage name DJ Talent.
Karen says: "Some women might not want to be with a guy who has slept with so many women, but Anthony's my soulmate.

"All that's in the past. What he got up to with other women before we met doesn't bother me."

In the limelight: Anthony Ghosh with Simon Cowell

And Anthony is happy to turn his back on his bed-hopping days.He said: "I've had hundreds of one-night stands, but I'm a changed man. I've fallen head over heels in love.

"Women still throw themselves at me. But now I just want to settle down with Karen and have kids."

Karen fancied the rapper, whose gold teeth are worth £10,000, the first time she saw him on TV.
In 2009 more than 13 million viewers watched him winning over the judges with his tune: "I say Britain, you say talent. Britain's got talent – it's the DJ Talent

Happy and settled down: Karen Usherwood and Anthony

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Shortly afterwards, the couple met briefly in 2009 at a nightclub in Kent where Anthony was ­gigging but their paths didn't cross again until August this year.

Anthony explains: "I posted a message on Facebook saying I was feeling down. Karen saw it and sent me a reply saying she hoped I'd soon feel happier."

A week later he asked Karen out for a drink and they clicked immediately.
It was perfect timing for Anthony because he desperately wanted a caring, loving relationship.
The DJ, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, explains: "After I went on BGT, I was ­recognised everywhere. I went to bed with a different woman every night.

"I'd do a gig and there would be lots of women all hoping I'd pick them. I was like a kid in a sweetshop. I must've slept with over 1,000 women – all one-night stands."

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One true love? Anthony is planning setting down with Karen

His womanising went on for several years, but as he reached his mid-30s the empty routine of meaningless, casual sex began to take its toll.

Anthony went on: "I had a life many men would envy. But the biggest worry was wondering if women were only ­interested in me because I was famous.

"I was having lots of sex and some wild fun times. But it's not the same as ­building a relationship, caring about someone and being close to them."

Then in January this year Anthony's world was rocked as he had to deal with a bowel cancer scare. He says: "Luckily tests came back showing I didn't have cancer. It was just a harmless condition, but it gave my life a new perspective."

And then Karen reached out to him with her Facebook comment.

He adds: "From the moment I got that message, I knew she was different from any other woman I've dated before. She was just so caring."

Karen, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, had also wondered if she would ever meet Mr Right. She says: "I married in my early 20s but that was far too young.

"Since then I've had a series of ­relationships, but with Anthony, things feel completely different. I have never felt so comfortable with anyone in my life. He's got a heart of gold.

"But at the same time I feel very protected when I'm with him. And while he's a softy inside, he knows his own mind. He doesn't stand for nonsense."

She adds: "I've never had a one-night stand. I'm strictly a one-man woman."

Anthony confessed to Karen about his extraordinary number of number of lovers early on.
He says: "I did worry what Karen might say, but she just said what happened before was ­irrelevant. Despite having had so many lovers, I've never been a cheater. And I've had enough one-night stands to last me a lifetime."

Karen adds: "Some people might say a leopard can't change its spots – and wonder if Anthony might stray. When we go out and he still gets women chatting him up.

"But I'm not jealous – because I trust him completely. He recently said he thought we should get engaged. I took that as a proposal and said 'yes'.
"We hope to officially get engaged in the New Year.

"Hopefully we will marry within the next year – and who knows we might even have kids."
Karen, who works with adults with learning ­difficulties, adds: "At 43, I don't have the time to wait too long. It would be lovely to make Anthony a dad." The couple are so in love they have even made a new rap song together to ­celebrate their happiness.

He explains: "It's a mix of my favourite Ibiza tracks and Karen sings the backing tracks on it."
And now Anthony has met the love of his life, he doesn't have any regrets about bedding so many women in the past.

He says: "They just makes me realise how special Karen is and how lucky we are to have found one another."

 

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The I’m A Celebrity 2014 bromance is OVER: Foggy tells Jimmy Bullard to ‘man up’

Carl Fogarty and Jimmy Bullard’s bromance is over :(:(:( (Picture: ITV)

It’s true, this year’s I’m A Celeb bromace has been smashed to smithereens and Joggy is no more.
Their blossoming relationship hit the rocks when Foggy realised his partner in crime wasn’t quite the man he thought he was…

During tonight’s show the pair headed to the remote ‘shed of dread’ where they were discovered a six-hour challenge lay ahead.

In the shed was 120 tubes – some contained stars (meals for camp), while others contained creepy crawlies, and with every hour that passed they had to select 10 tubes to open.

As the hours rolled by more and more critters spilled out into the shed and Jimmy got more and more jumpy. And Foggy was not impressed…

It turns out Jimmy isn’t as macho as Foggy thought (Picture: ITV)

Later on Jimmy suggested the pair give up, quit the task and head back to camp without getting the full amount of stars on offer.

‘I’ll stick it out til the end,’ Foggy hit back.

‘It’s like something out of a horror movie. It stinks,’ said Jimmy. ‘I might have to leave.’
‘Man up!’ Foggy snapped back.

Explaining the tension afterwards, Jimmy said: ‘In the end I started getting fed up with him a little but., He was like, “Shut up, you p****”.’

Uh oh. Now’s the chance to make your move, Jake!
I’m A Celeb continues tomorrow night at 9pm on ITV.

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Could everyone stop voting for Kendra Wilkinson on I’m A Celeb. Thanks.

Kendra Wilkinson is dreadful at obtaining stars by way of bushtucker trial (Picture: ITV/Rex)

Can everybody please stop voting for Kendra Wilkinson to do all the I’m A Celebrity bushtucker trials.

Seriously, who is voting for her? Who out there is enjoying this repetitive drivel? WELL?
OK, so we don’t want Jake or Foggy or Mel do step in to her shoes because experience tells us they’ll be ace and we wouldn’t be human if we didn’t want to see a smidgen of terror and/or pain at the very least…

In fact, we’re thinking Jimmy Bullard is perfect bushtucker trial fodder. He’s squeamish with zero bravado and we think he’ll push all sorts of boundaries and do all kinds of brave things to ensure he remains in Foggy’s good books.

And then there’s Buerk – he’b be a goodn too. Or Edwina – it’s time she got off her pedestal and squirmed a little don’t you think?

Yes Kendra swore a bit at Edwina and yes she’s a bit loud and a bit self-centered and a bit whiny and yes she slept with Hugh Hefner when she was just a teen BUT there’s only so much of this night in, night out torture we can take.

Nadia is hungry and she wants somebody other than Kendra to do the next bushtucker trial (Picture: ITV/Rex)

I’ve had enough, Nadia’s had enough, and the people on Twitter have certainly had enough…

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I’m A Celebrity 2014: SECOND murderer on the loose near camp - security tightened amid fears

A second murder took place just TEN minutes from the camp - the suspect has yet to be found

 

Security has been stepped up at the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! camp after it was revealed that not just one but two murderers are on the loose.
ITV bosses have reportedly taken extra measures to protect the contestants - who include Michael Buerk, Vicki Michelle, Jimmy Bullard and Melanie Sykes - following a "shocking" incident in Murwillumbah and another in Coomera.
It has emerged that two weeks ago a woman was found dead in the street in Murwillumbah, the town just ten minutes from where the celebs are camping, causing police to worry their suspect is hiding out in the jungle.
The body of Lynette Jones, 52, is now with the coroner but New South Wales police say the death of the mother-of-two is "suspicious" and it caused shock in the tiny town.

 Ms Murphy, who worked with Ms Jones at Heritage Lodge aged care facility said: "We're a small country town community and this has had a very deep impact on people."

A New South Wales police spokesman revealed that the investigation continues as they urged witness who saw Ms Jones near the Imperial Hotel on Main St an hour before her death to come forward.

Detective Sergeant Laurie Moroney said:"We're looking for witnesses who know the route she may have taken from the hotel."

The tragic news emerged just hours after the Mirror revealed another murderer was on the loose following an attack less than an hour away from the site.

Mark Spencer (pictured) was murdered in Coomera on October 1 - less than hour away from camp

A man was bludgeoned to death with a tennis racquet in Coomera, less than an hour away from the jungle and the killer is still at large, with some locals claiming he is in hiding in a rural area closeby.
Mark Spencer, 37, was beaten to death on the back patio of his home in Coomera in the early hours of October 1.

Apart from a bloodied, broken tennis racquet the only lead the police have is a black Ford Falcon which they are hunting the Gold Coast for as they think the attacked drove off in it.
Two weeks ago detectives released CCTV footage of a dark-coloured 2008 or 2009 Ford Falcon sedan spotted near Mr Spencer's home on the night he was killed.

But Queensland police admitted to the Mirror yesterday they are no closer to finding the killer and do not know where he is hiding.
An ITV source said safety of the celebrities was a huge priority.
The insider said: "We have a security team on site. The safety and security of our celebrities and crew is of the utmost importance."

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